This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of England before the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707. For dates after 1708, see List of wars involving the United Kingdom.
*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
927 | 937 | Æthelstan's invasion of Scotland |
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Stalemate |
946 | 954 | Northumbria's war of independence |
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Northumbria | Victory
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1016 | 1016 | Cnut the Great's invasion of England |
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Defeat
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1026 | 1026 | Battle of Helgeå |
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Victory
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1066 | 1088 | Norman Conquest of England |
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William of Normandy |
Defeat
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1067 | 1081 | Norman invasion of Wales |
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Welsh kingdoms | Defeat
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1075 | 1075 | Revolt of the Earls |
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Three earls | Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
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1096 | 1099 | First Crusade |
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1145 | 1149 | Second Crusade |
![]() Kingdom of Sicily (Holy land Crusade) |
Sultanate of Rum (Holy Land Crusade)
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Partial Crusader Victory
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1189 | 1192 | Third Crusade |
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Ayyubids Zengids Sultanate of Rum Byzantine Empire | Partial Crusader victory |
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1470 | 1474 | Anglo-Hanseatic War | ![]() |
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Defeat, Hanseatic victory |
1496 | 1498 |
Italian War of 1494–1498 (1494–1498) |
League of Venice:
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1602 | 1661 | Dutch-Portuguese War (1602–1661) | ![]() ![]() (until 1640) ![]() ![]() ![]() Kingdom of Ndongo |
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Stalemate
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1625 | 1630 | Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630) | ![]() Support: |
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Status quo ante bellum
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1627 | 1629 | Anglo-French War (1627–1629) | ![]() |
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Status quo ante bellum |
1640 | 1668 | Portuguese Restoration War |
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Victory
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1652 | 1654 | First Anglo-Dutch War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1654 | 1660 | Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1661 | 1665 | Dano-Dutch War | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory
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1665 | 1667 | Second Anglo-Dutch War | ![]() ![]() |
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Defeat
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1672 | 1674 | Third Anglo-Dutch War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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inconclusive/other result
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1672 | 1678 | Franco-Dutch War | ![]()
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Major French territorial gains
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1686 | 1690 | Anglo-Mughal War |
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Defeat
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1687 | 1688 | Anglo-Siamese War |
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Inconclusive
English factory rejected from Siam, after minor naval action, along with massacre in the aftermath: the war was not pursued. In 1688, a coup forced the closure of all official European trade in Siam for 150 years except for the Dutch. |
1688 | 1697 | Nine Years' War |
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1700 | 1721 | The
Great Northern War (1700–1721) |
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Inconclusive for England
Russian Allied victory:
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1701 | 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession |
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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English Government | Rebels | ||||
1069 | 1070 | Harrying of the North |
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Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
An uprising which started 4 years after the Norman Conquest. Edgar Ætheling, the grandson of Edmund Ironside and the last notable heir to the House of Wessex, fought with the support of the King of Denmark Sweyn II, Anglo-Saxons, and Anglo-Scandinavians. It ended in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons & Anglo-Scandinavians. William the Conqueror paid Sweyn and his Danish fleet to go home, but the remaining rebels refused to meet him in battle, and he decided to starve them out by laying waste to the northern shires using scorched earth tactics. The Norman campaign to reconquer Northern England resulted in a genocide against the people living there. |
1070 | 1071 | Ely Rebellion |
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King of Denmark
Sweyn II Hereward the Wake Morcar Bishop Aethelwine of Durham |
Internal Conflict, William Victorius
An anti-Norman insurrection centred on the Isle of Ely. The Danish king Sweyn Estrithson sent a small army to try to establish a camp on the Isle of Ely. The Isle became a refuge for Anglo-Saxon forces under Earl Morcar, Bishop Aethelwine of Durham and Hereward the Wake in 1071. [4] The area was taken by William the Conqueror only after a prolonged struggle. [5] |
1088 | 1088 | Rebellion of 1088 |
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Internal Conflict, William Rufus Victorius |
1135 | 1154 | The Anarchy | Supporters of Stephen of Blois | Supporters of Empress Matilda and Henry Curtmantle | Civil War
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1173 | 1174 | Revolt of 1173–74 |
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English rebels Kingdom of France Kingdom of Scotland County of Flanders County of Boulogne Duchy of Brittany |
Internal Conflict
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1215 | 1217 | First Barons' War |
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Rebel Barons
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Civil War, Angevinian victory
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1264 | 1267 | Second Barons' War |
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Rebel barons | Civil War, Royalist victory
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1264 | 1267 | Welsh Uprising (1282) |
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Internal Conflict, Royalist victory |
1321 | 1322 | Despenser War |
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Contrariants
Supported by:
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Civil War, Decisive Royal victory
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1326 | 1326 | Invasion of England (1326) |
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Edward II (
POW) |
Contrariants Supported by: |
Civil War, Contrariants' victory
Continuation of the Despenser War. Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimers invasion led to:
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1381 | 1381 | Peasants' Revolt |
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Rebel forces | Internal Conflict, Royal government victorious
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1400 | 1415 | Glyndŵr RisingPart of the Hundred Years' War |
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Internal Conflict, Total English victory |
1455 | 1485 | Wars of the Roses |
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Civil War, Victory for the
House of Lancaster and their allies
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1497 | 1497 | Cornish Rebellion of 1497 | ![]() |
Cornish rebels |
Internal Conflict, English victory |
1549 | 1549 | Prayer Book Rebellion | ![]()
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Southwestern Catholic Rebels
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Internal Conflict, Edwardian victory
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1639 | 1651 | Wars of the Three Kingdoms | ![]() |
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Civil War, Parliamentarian victory Bishops' Wars (1639)
Second Bishops' War (1640)
First English Civil War (1642–46)
Irish Confederate Wars (1642–48)
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–47)
Second English Civil War (1648)
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
Third English Civil War (1650–1652)
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1685 | 1685 | Monmouth Rebellion |
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Internal Conflict, Victory for James II |
1688 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution |
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William of Orange Dutch military forces British military forces |
Internal Conflict
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1689 | 1746 | Jacobite Rebellions |
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Jacobites | Civil War, Royalist victory in England, Scotland and Ireland
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This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of England before the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Acts of Union 1707. For dates after 1708, see List of wars involving the United Kingdom.
*e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
927 | 937 | Æthelstan's invasion of Scotland |
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Stalemate |
946 | 954 | Northumbria's war of independence |
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Northumbria | Victory
|
1016 | 1016 | Cnut the Great's invasion of England |
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![]() Cnut the Great |
Defeat
|
1026 | 1026 | Battle of Helgeå |
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Victory
|
1066 | 1088 | Norman Conquest of England |
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William of Normandy |
Defeat
|
1067 | 1081 | Norman invasion of Wales |
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Welsh kingdoms | Defeat
|
1075 | 1075 | Revolt of the Earls |
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Three earls | Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
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1096 | 1099 | First Crusade |
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1145 | 1149 | Second Crusade |
![]() Kingdom of Sicily (Holy land Crusade) |
Sultanate of Rum (Holy Land Crusade)
![]() ![]() ![]() Obotrite Confederacy (Wendish Crusade) |
Partial Crusader Victory
|
1189 | 1192 | Third Crusade |
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Ayyubids Zengids Sultanate of Rum Byzantine Empire | Partial Crusader victory |
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1470 | 1474 | Anglo-Hanseatic War | ![]() |
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Defeat, Hanseatic victory |
1496 | 1498 |
Italian War of 1494–1498 (1494–1498) |
League of Venice:
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1602 | 1661 | Dutch-Portuguese War (1602–1661) | ![]() ![]() (until 1640) ![]() ![]() ![]() Kingdom of Ndongo |
![]() ![]() (until 1640) Kingdom of Cochin Potiguara Tupis |
Stalemate
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1625 | 1630 | Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630) | ![]() Support: |
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Status quo ante bellum
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1627 | 1629 | Anglo-French War (1627–1629) | ![]() |
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Status quo ante bellum |
1640 | 1668 | Portuguese Restoration War |
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Victory
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1652 | 1654 | First Anglo-Dutch War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1654 | 1660 | Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1661 | 1665 | Dano-Dutch War | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory
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1665 | 1667 | Second Anglo-Dutch War | ![]() ![]() |
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Defeat
|
1672 | 1674 | Third Anglo-Dutch War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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inconclusive/other result
|
1672 | 1678 | Franco-Dutch War | ![]()
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Major French territorial gains
|
1686 | 1690 | Anglo-Mughal War |
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Defeat
|
1687 | 1688 | Anglo-Siamese War |
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![]() (Unauthorised piracy by English sailors under Siamese employ) • ![]() |
Inconclusive
English factory rejected from Siam, after minor naval action, along with massacre in the aftermath: the war was not pursued. In 1688, a coup forced the closure of all official European trade in Siam for 150 years except for the Dutch. |
1688 | 1697 | Nine Years' War |
Grand Alliance:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Victory
|
Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
England & allies | England's opposition | ||||
1700 | 1721 | The
Great Northern War (1700–1721) |
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Inconclusive for England
Russian Allied victory:
|
1701 | 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession |
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Victory
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Start | End | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
English Government | Rebels | ||||
1069 | 1070 | Harrying of the North |
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Internal Conflict, William was Victorious
An uprising which started 4 years after the Norman Conquest. Edgar Ætheling, the grandson of Edmund Ironside and the last notable heir to the House of Wessex, fought with the support of the King of Denmark Sweyn II, Anglo-Saxons, and Anglo-Scandinavians. It ended in defeat for the Anglo-Saxons & Anglo-Scandinavians. William the Conqueror paid Sweyn and his Danish fleet to go home, but the remaining rebels refused to meet him in battle, and he decided to starve them out by laying waste to the northern shires using scorched earth tactics. The Norman campaign to reconquer Northern England resulted in a genocide against the people living there. |
1070 | 1071 | Ely Rebellion |
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King of Denmark
Sweyn II Hereward the Wake Morcar Bishop Aethelwine of Durham |
Internal Conflict, William Victorius
An anti-Norman insurrection centred on the Isle of Ely. The Danish king Sweyn Estrithson sent a small army to try to establish a camp on the Isle of Ely. The Isle became a refuge for Anglo-Saxon forces under Earl Morcar, Bishop Aethelwine of Durham and Hereward the Wake in 1071. [4] The area was taken by William the Conqueror only after a prolonged struggle. [5] |
1088 | 1088 | Rebellion of 1088 |
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Internal Conflict, William Rufus Victorius |
1135 | 1154 | The Anarchy | Supporters of Stephen of Blois | Supporters of Empress Matilda and Henry Curtmantle | Civil War
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1173 | 1174 | Revolt of 1173–74 |
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English rebels Kingdom of France Kingdom of Scotland County of Flanders County of Boulogne Duchy of Brittany |
Internal Conflict
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1215 | 1217 | First Barons' War |
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Rebel Barons
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Civil War, Angevinian victory
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1264 | 1267 | Second Barons' War |
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Rebel barons | Civil War, Royalist victory
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1264 | 1267 | Welsh Uprising (1282) |
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Internal Conflict, Royalist victory |
1321 | 1322 | Despenser War |
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Contrariants
Supported by:
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Civil War, Decisive Royal victory
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1326 | 1326 | Invasion of England (1326) |
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Edward II (
POW) |
Contrariants Supported by: |
Civil War, Contrariants' victory
Continuation of the Despenser War. Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimers invasion led to:
|
1381 | 1381 | Peasants' Revolt |
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Rebel forces | Internal Conflict, Royal government victorious
|
1400 | 1415 | Glyndŵr RisingPart of the Hundred Years' War |
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Internal Conflict, Total English victory |
1455 | 1485 | Wars of the Roses |
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Civil War, Victory for the
House of Lancaster and their allies
|
1497 | 1497 | Cornish Rebellion of 1497 | ![]() |
Cornish rebels |
Internal Conflict, English victory |
1549 | 1549 | Prayer Book Rebellion | ![]()
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Southwestern Catholic Rebels
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Internal Conflict, Edwardian victory
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1639 | 1651 | Wars of the Three Kingdoms | ![]() |
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Civil War, Parliamentarian victory Bishops' Wars (1639)
Second Bishops' War (1640)
First English Civil War (1642–46)
Irish Confederate Wars (1642–48)
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–47)
Second English Civil War (1648)
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
Third English Civil War (1650–1652)
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1685 | 1685 | Monmouth Rebellion |
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Internal Conflict, Victory for James II |
1688 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution |
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William of Orange Dutch military forces British military forces |
Internal Conflict
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1689 | 1746 | Jacobite Rebellions |
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Jacobites | Civil War, Royalist victory in England, Scotland and Ireland
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